Most Java developers who come from a C/C++ background have probably at one time wished for a Java equivalent of sizeof(). Although Java lacks a true sizeof() equivalent, the Instrumentation interface ...

In a recent project, I needed an easy way to traverse Java object trees and extract values from the objects. Instead of continually going through huge iterator-if ...

Object-oriented systems are usually partitioned into layers of related responsibilities and only dependencies in one direction are allowed, from higher layers (more specific, less reusable) to lower ...

Java is one of the most in-demand programming languages in the world and one of the two official programming languages used in Android development (the other being Kotlin). Developers familiar with ...

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OK folks,<BR><BR>I've been scouring the Web looking for info on optimising the memory usage of Java and have come up with a few items of interest.<BR><BR>Can anyone shed any further light on a the ...

Java and Java-related technologies continue to be introduced and continue to mature. As Java becomes more enterprise ready, as opposed to application-platform centric, we are seeing the introduction ...

Recently, on the "Ask The Architect" session from the Devoxx UK 2018 conference, Oracle's chief architect, Mark Reinhold, shared his thoughts about Java’s serialization mechanism which he called a ...